Companies are getting in on the ground floor of mining asteroids in space for precious minerals and important terrestrial ...

Every so often, Jupiter's strong gravity sends an asteroid hurtling through the solar system, sometimes towards Earth. Last ...

In October 2023, NASA launched a mission toward 16 Psyche, a massive gold and metal-rich asteroid orbiting between Mars and ...

NASA's ambitious mission to study asteroid 16 Psyche is now underway, marking a major step in our efforts to understand the early formation of planets. Launched on October 13, 2023, the spacecraft is ...

This February, California-based asteroid mining startup AstroForge embarked on what it hoped would be one of the most important launches in history: the first commercial deep space mission. Strapped ...

"We're studying the leftover raw materials from the formation of the planets and trying to understand the history that made the Earth and our environment what it is." BOULDER, Colorado — Asteroid ...

In 2010, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) made history when its Hayabusa probe became the first spacecraft to not only land on and launch from an asteroid (Itokawa), but successfully ...

The asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is out of sight yet still very much on scientists’ minds. The building-sized object, which initially appeared to be on a potential collision course with Earth, is ...